<cache> Element Reference

This section documents the cache.xml sub-elements used for Tanzu GemFire server configuration. All elements are sub-elements of the <cache> element.

For Tanzu GemFire client configuration, see <client-cache> Element Reference.

API:org.apache.geode.cache.CacheFactory

<cache> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
copy-on-read	Boolean indicating whether entry value retrieval methods return direct references to the entry value objects in the cache (false) or copies of the objects (true).	False
is-server	Boolean indicating whether this member is a cache server.	False
lock-timeout	The timeout, in seconds, for implicit object lock requests. This setting affects automatic locking only, and does not apply to manual locking. If a lock request does not return before the specified timeout period, it is cancelled and returns with a failure.	60
lock-lease	The timeout, in seconds, for implicit and explicit object lock leases. This affects both automatic locking and manual locking. Once a lock is obtained, it can remain in force for the lock lease time period before being automatically cleared by the system.	120
message-sync-interval	Used for client subscription queue synchronization when this member acts as a server to clients and server redundancy is used. Sets the frequency (in seconds) at which the primary server sends messages to its secondary servers to remove queued events that have already been processed by the clients.	1
search-timeout	How many seconds a `netSearch` operation can wait for data before timing out. You may want to change this based on your knowledge of the network load or other factors.	300

Example:

<cache>
  <cache-server port="40404" />
  <region name="root">
    <region-attributes refid="REPLICATE"/>
    <region name="cs_region" refid="REPLICATE">
      <region-attributes>
        <cache-loader>
          <class-name>cacheRunner.StringLoader</class-name>
        </cache-loader>
        <cache-listener>
          <class-name>cacheRunner.LoggingCacheListener</class-name>
        </cache-listener>
      </region-attributes>
    </region>
  </region>
</cache>

<cache-transaction-manager>

Specifies a transaction listener.

API: CacheTransactionManager

Example:

<cache search-timeout="60">
  <cache-transaction-manager>
    <transaction-listener>
      <class-name>com.company.data.MyTransactionListener</class-name>
      <parameter name="URL">
        <string>jdbc:cloudscape:rmi:MyData</string>
      </parameter>
    </transaction-listener>
    <transaction-listener> ... </transaction-listener>
    <transaction-writer>
       <class-name>com.company.data.MyTransactionWriter</class-name>
       <parameter name="URL">
         <string>jdbc:cloudscape:rmi:MyData</string>
       </parameter>
       <parameter> ... /<parameter>
    </transaction-writer>
  </cache-transaction-manager>
  ...
</cache>

<transaction-listener>

When a transaction ends, its thread calls the TransactionListener to perform the appropriate follow-up for successful commits, failed commits, or voluntary rollbacks.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

<transaction-writer>

When you commit a transaction, a TransactionWriter can perform additional tasks, including cancelling the transaction.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

<dynamic-region-factory>

The <dynamic-region-factory> element configures a dynamic region factory for this cache. You can use this element to dynamically create regions in your application code. Use the createDynamicRegion() method of the org.apache.geode.cache.DynamicRegionFactory class in your Java code to dynamically create regions.

Note: You cannot use this element to dynamically create partitioned regions.

Note: Use of the DynamicRegionFactory class and the <dynamic-region-factory> element are deprecated in favor of the org.apache.geode.cache.execute.FunctionService class and the <function-service> element.

We recommend that you use functions to dynamically create regions. See Creating Regions Dynamically.

The optional <disk-dir> sub-element specifies the directory to store the persistent files that are used for dynamic region bookkeeping. It defaults to the current directory.

Set the pool-name attribute to set the name of the connection pool used by client applications in a client/server cache configuration. Do not specify the pool-name attribute in servers or peers.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.DynamicRegionFactory

<dynamic-region-factory> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
disable-persist-backup	When set to false, the factory is persisted on disk.	false
disable-register-interest	When set to false, client regions created by the factory register interest in all keys in a corresponding server cache region.	false
pool-name	The name of a connection pool used by the client factory to communicate with the server-side factory.	none

Example:

<dynamic-region-factory
  pool-name=myPool>
  <disk-dir>/home/gemfire/myDiskdir</disk-dir>
</dynamic-region-factory>

<disk-dir>

Specifies a region or disk store’s disk directory.

<disk-dir> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
dir-size	Maximum amount of space to use for the disk store, in megabytes.	214748364 (2 petabytes)

Example:

<disk-dir
  dir-size="20480">/host3/users/gf/memberA_DStore</disk-dir>

<gateway-sender>

Configures a gateway sender to distribute region events to another Tanzu GemFire site. See Configuring a Multi-site (WAN) System.

API: GatewaySender

<gateway-sender> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
parallel	Value of "true" or "false" that specifies the type of gateway sender that Tanzu GemFire creates.	false
dispatcher-threads	Number of dispatcher threads that are used to process region events from a gateway sender queue or asynchronous event queue.	5
order-policy	When the `dispatcher-threads` attribute is greater than 1, `order-policy` configures the way in which multiple dispatcher threads process region events from a serial gateway queue or serial asynchronous event queue. This attribute can have one of the following values: key. When distributing region events from the local queue, multiple dispatcher threads preserve the order of key updates. thread. When distributing region events from the local queue, multiple dispatcher threads preserve the order in which a given thread added region events to the queue. partition. This option is valid for parallel event queues. When distributing region events from the local queue, multiple dispatcher threads preserve the order in which region events were added to the local queue. For a partitioned region, this means that all region events delivered to a specific partition are delivered in the same order to the remote Tanzu GemFire site. For a distributed region, this means that all key updates delivered to the local queue are distributed to the remote site in the same order. You cannot configure the `order-policy` for a parallel event queue, because parallel queues cannot preserve event ordering for regions. Only the ordering of events for a given partition (or in a given queue of a distributed region) can be preserved.	key
id	Unique identifier for the gateway sender, usually an identifier associated with a physical location. This attribute is required.	null
remote-distributed-system-id	Integer that uniquely identifies the remote Tanzu GemFire cluster to which this gateway sender will send region events. This value corresponds to the `distributed-system-id` property specified in locators for the remote cluster. This attribute is required.	null
manual-start	Deprecated. Boolean value that specifies whether you need to manually start the gateway sender. If you supply a null value, the default value of false is used, and the gateway sender attempts to start automatically. A manual start is likely to cause data loss, so manual start should never be used in a production system.	false
socket-buffer-size	Size of the socket buffer that sends messages to remote sites. This size should match the size of the `socket-buffer-size` attribute of remote gateway receivers that process region events.	32768
socket-read-timeout	Amount of time in milliseconds that the gateway sender will wait to receive an acknowledgment from a remote site. By default this is set to 0, which means there is no timeout. If you do set this timeout, you must set it to a minimum of 30000 (milliseconds). Setting it to a lower number will generate an error message and reset the value to the default of 0.	0
enable-batch-conflation	Boolean value that determines whether Tanzu GemFire should conflate messages.	false
batch-size	Maximum number of messages that a batch can contain.	100
batch-time-interval	Maximum number of milliseconds that can elapse between sending batches.	1000
enable-persistence	Boolean value that determines whether Tanzu GemFire persists the gateway queue.	false
disk-store-name	Named disk store to use for storing the queue overflow, or for persisting the queue. If you specify a value, the named disk store must exist. If you specify a null value, Tanzu GemFire uses the default disk store for overflow and queue persistence.
disk-synchronous	For regions that write to disk, boolean that specifies whether disk writes are done synchronously for the region.	true
maximum-queue-memory	Maximum amount of memory in megabytes that the queue can consume before overflowing to disk.	100 MB
alert-threshold	Maximum number of milliseconds that a region event can remain in the gateway sender queue before Tanzu GemFire logs an alert.	0
group-transaction-events	Boolean value to ensure that all the events of a transaction are sent in the same batch, i.e., they are never spread across different batches. Only allowed to be set on gateway senders with the `parallel` attribute set to false and `dispatcher-threads` attribute equal to 1, or on gateway senders with the `parallel` attribute set to true. Also, the `enable-batch-conflation` attribute of the gateway sender must be set to false. Note: In order to work for a transaction, the regions to which the transaction events belong must be replicated by the same set of senders with this flag enabled. Note: If the above condition is not fulfilled or under very high load traffic conditions, it may not be guaranteed that all the events for a transaction will be sent in the same batch, even if `group-transaction-events` is enabled. The number of batches sent with incomplete transactions can be retrieved from the `GatewaySenderMXBean` bean.	false

Example:

<cache>
  <gateway-sender
    id="remoteA"
    parallel="true"
    remote-distributed-system-id="1">
    <gateway-event-filter>
      <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleEventFilter</class-name>
      <parameter
        name="param1">
        <string>"value1"</string>
      </parameter>
    </gateway-event-filter>
    <gateway-transport-filter>
      <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleTransportFilter</class-name>
      <parameter
        name="param1">
        <string>"value1"</string>
      </parameter>
    </gateway-transport-filter>
  </gateway-sender>
  ...
</cache>

<gateway-event-filter>

A GatewayEventFilter implementation determines whether a region event is placed in a gateway sender queue and/or whether an event in a gateway queue is distributed to a remote site. You can optionally add one or more GatewayEventFilter implementations to a gateway sender, either in the cache.xml configuration file or using the Java API.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Example:

<gateway-event-filter>
  <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleEventFilter</class-name>
  <parameter name="param1">
    <string>"value1"</string>
  </parameter>
</gateway-event-filter>

<gateway-event-substitution-filter>

A GatewayEventSubstitutionFilter provides a way to specify a substitute value to be stored in the GatewayQueueEvent and enqueued in the RegionQueue. You can optionally add one GatewayEventSubstitutionFilter implementation to a gateway sender.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Example:

<gateway-event-substitution-filter>
  <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleEventSubstitutionFilter</class-name>
  <parameter name="param1">
    <string>"value1"</string>
  </parameter>
</gateway-event-substitution-filter>

<gateway-transport-filter>

Use a GatewayTransportFilter implementation to process the TCP stream that sends a batch of events that is distributed from one Tanzu GemFire cluster to another over a WAN. A GatewayTransportFilter is typically used to perform encryption or compression on the data that distributed. You install the same GatewayTransportFilter implementation on both a gateway sender and gateway receiver.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Example:

<gateway-transport-filter>
  <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleTransportFilter</class-name>
  <parameter
    name="param1">
    <string>"value1"</string>
  </parameter>
</gateway-transport-filter>

<gateway-receiver>

Configures a gateway receiver to receive and apply region events that were distributed from another Tanzu GemFire site. You can only specify one gateway receiver on a member. See Configuring a Multi-site (WAN) System.

API: GatewayReceiverFactory, GatewayTransportFilter

<gateway-receiver> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
start-port	Starting port number to use when specifying the range of possible port numbers this gateway receiver will use to connects to gateway senders in other sites. Tanzu GemFire chooses an unused port number in the specified port number range to start the receiver. If no port numbers in the range are available, an exception is thrown. The `STARTPORT` value is inclusive while the `ENDPORT` value is exclusive. For example, if you specify `STARTPORT="50510"` and `ENDPOINT="50520"`, Tanzu GemFire chooses a port value from 50510 to 50519.	5000
end-port	Defines the upper bound port number to use when specifying the range of possible port numbers this gateway receiver will use to for connections from gateway senders in other sites. Tanzu GemFire chooses an unused port number in the specified port number range to start the receiver. If no port numbers in the range are available, an exception is thrown. The `ENDPORT` value is exclusive while the `STARTPORT` value is inclusive. For example, if you specify `STARTPORT="50510"` and `ENDPOINT="50520"`, Tanzu GemFire chooses a port value from 50510 to 50519.	5500
bind-address	Network address for connections from gateway senders in other sites. Specify the address as a literal string value.
hostname-for-senders	Attribute where you can specify an IP address or hostname for gateway sender connections. If you configure hostname-for-senders, locators will use the provided hostname or IP address when instructing gateway senders on how to connect to gateway receivers. If you provide "" or null as the value, by default the gateway receiver's bind-address will be sent to clients.
manual-start	When set to false, the gateway receiver will automatically start when the receiver is created. If set to true, you must manually start the receiver.	true
maximum-time-between-pings	Integer value that specifies the time interval (in milliseconds) to use between pings to connected WAN sites. This value determines the maximum amount of time that can elapse before a remote WAN site is considered offline.	60000
socket-buffer-size	An integer value that sets the buffer size (in bytes) of the socket connection for this gateway receiver. This value should match the `socket-buffer-size` setting of gateway senders that connect to this receiver.	32768

Example:

<cache>
  <gateway-receiver start-port="1530" end-port="1551">
    <gateway-transport-filter>
      <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleTransportFilter</class-name>
      <parameter
        name="param1">
        <string>"value1"</string>
      </parameter>
    </gateway-transport-filter>
  </gateway-receiver>
</cache>

<gateway-transport-filter>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Example:

<gateway-transport-filter>
  <class-name>org.apache.geode.util.SampleTransportFilter</class-name>
  <parameter
    name="param1">
    <string>"value1"</string>
  </parameter>
</gateway-transport-filter>

<gateway-conflict-resolver>

An event-handler plug-in that is called in order to determine whether a potentially conflicting WAN update should be applied to the local cache. A GatewayConflictResolver is invoked if the current value in a cache entry was established by a different cluster (with a different distributed-system-id) than an event that is attempting to modify the entry. It is not invoked if the event has the same distributed system ID as the event that last changed the entry. See Resolving Conflicting Events

Specify the Java class for the gateway conflict resolver plug-in and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.util.GatewayConflictResolver

Example:

<gateway-conflict-resolver>
  <class-name>
    myPackage.MyConflictResolver
  </class-name>
</gateway-conflict-resolver>

<async-event-queue>

Configures a queue for sending region events to an AsyncEventListener implementation (for example, for write-behind event handling).

API: org.apache.geode.cache.asyncqueue.AsyncEventQueue

<async-event-queue> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
id	Unique identifier for the queue. This attribute is required.	null
parallel	Value of "true" or "false" that specifies the type of queue that Tanzu GemFire creates.	false
batch-size	Maximum number of messages that a batch can contain.	100
batch-time-interval	Maximum number of milliseconds that can elapse between sending batches.	5
enable-batch-conflation	Boolean value that determines whether Tanzu GemFire should conflate messages.	false
disk-store-name	Named disk store to use for storing queue overflow, or for persisting the queue. If you specify a value, the named disk store must exist. If you specify a null value, Tanzu GemFire uses the default disk store for overflow and queue persistence.	null specifies the default disk store
disk-synchronous	For regions that write to disk, boolean that specifies whether disk writes are done synchronously for the region.	true
dispatcher-threads	Number of dispatcher threads that are used to process region events from the queue.	5
forward-expiration-destroy	When true, forwards expiration destroy operations to AsyncEventListener.	false
maximum-queue-memory	Maximum amount of memory in megabytes that the queue can consume before overflowing to disk.	100 mb
order-policy	When the `dispatcher-threads` attribute is greater than 1, `order-policy` configures the way in which multiple dispatcher threads process region events from the queue. This attribute can have one of the following values: key. When distributing region events from the local queue, multiple dispatcher threads preserve the order of key updates. thread. When distributing region events from the local queue, multiple dispatcher threads preserve the order in which a given thread added region events to the queue. partition. This option is valid for parallel event queues. When distributing region events from the local queue, multiple dispatcher threads preserve the order in which region events were added to the local queue. For a partitioned region, this means that all region events delivered to a specific partition are delivered in the same order to the remote Tanzu GemFire site. For a distributed region, this means that all key updates delivered to the local queue are distributed to the remote site in the same order. You cannot configure the `order-policy` for a parallel event queue, because parallel queues cannot preserve event ordering for regions. Only the ordering of events for a given partition (or in a given queue of a distributed region) can be preserved.	key
pause-event-processing	When true, event dispatching from the queue to the listener(s) will be paused when the AsyncEventQueue is started.	false
persistent	Boolean value that determines whether Tanzu GemFire persists this queue.	False

Example:

<cache>
  <async-event-queue
    id="sampleQueue"
    persistent="true"
    disk-store-name="exampleStore"
    parallel="false">
    <async-event-listener>
      <class-name>MyAsyncEventListener</class-name>
      <parameter name="url">
        <string>jdbc:db2:SAMPLE</string>
      </parameter>
      <parameter name="username">
        <string>gfeadmin</string>
      </parameter>
      <parameter name="password">
        <string>admin1</string>
      </parameter>
    </async-event-listener>
  </async-event-queue>
    ...
</cache>

<async-event-listener>

An AsyncEventListener receives callbacks for events that change region data. You can use an AsyncEventListener implementation as a write-behind cache event handler to synchronize region updates with a database.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.asyncqueue.AsyncEventListener

Example:

...
    <async-event-listener>
      <class-name>MyAsyncEventListener</class-name>
      <parameter name="url">
        <string>jdbc:db2:SAMPLE</string>
      </parameter>
      <parameter name="username">
        <string>gfeadmin</string>
      </parameter>
      <parameter name="password">
        <string>admin1</string>
      </parameter>
    </async-event-listener>
...

<cache-server>

Configures the cache to serve region data to clients in a client/server caching system. This element indicates the port the server listens on for client communication.

The cacheserver process uses only cache.xml configuration. For application servers, you can set the same configuration properties using the org.apache.geode.cache.server.CacheServer and org.apache.geode.cache.Cache interfaces. For detailed information, see the online Java API documentation.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.server.CacheServer

<cache-server> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default Value
bind-address	Hostname or IP address that the server is to listen on for client connections. If null, the server listens on the machine's default address.	null
hostname-for-clients	Hostname or IP address to pass to the client as the location where the server is listening. When the server connects to the locator it tells the locator the host and port where it is listening for client connections. If the host the server uses by default is one that the client can't translate into an IP address, the client will have no route to the server's host and won't be able to find the server. For this situation, you must supply the server's alternate hostname for the locator to pass to the client. If null, the server's `bind-address` setting is used.	null
load-poll-interval	Frequency, in milliseconds, to poll the load probe for load information on the server.	5000 (5 seconds)
max-connections	Maximum number of client connections for the server. When the maximum is reached, the server refuses additional client connections. Note: Set this at least as high as max-threads.	800
max-threads	Maximum number of threads allowed in this server to service client connections. When the limit is reached, server threads begin servicing multiple connections. A zero setting causes the server to use a thread for every client connection. Note: Set this no higher than max-connections.	0
maximum-message-count	Maximum number of messages allowed in a subscription queue. When the queue reaches this limit, messages block. Note: Used only if `client-subscription` is not configured.	230000
maximum-time-between-pings	Maximum time, in milliseconds, the server allows to pass between messages or pings indicating a client is healthy. Note: A setting of 0 or a negative number turns off client health monitoring. Be careful not to do this accidentally.	60000 (1 minute)
message-time-to-live	Setting used for highly available subscription queues. The expiration time, in seconds, for non-durable messages in the secondary server's client subscription queue. The system removes non-durable messages that have been in the queue beyond this time. If set to 0 (zero), the messages are never removed. Note: Set this high enough to avoid removing messages that are still valid, to aovid losing messages during server failover.	180 (3 minutes)
port	Port that the server listens on for client communication.	40404
socket-buffer-size	Size for socket buffers used for server-to-client communication.	32768
tcp-no-delay	When set to true, enables TCP_NODELAY for Tanzu GemFire server connections to clients.	false

Example:

<cache>
  <cache-server
   port="40404"
  />
  ...
</cache>

<client-subscription>

Overflow specification for client subscription queues. Sets a capacity limit on the in-memory queue and specifies where to overflow when capacity is reached. By default no overflow is used. Specified in three parts:

Default: no overflow

API: org.apache.geode.cache.server.ClientSubscriptionConfig

<client-subscription> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
eviction-policy	How the capacity is calculated. The options are mem for memory use, entry for message count, and null for no overflow.	null
capacity	Used if eviction-policy is not null. Specified in megabytes for mem and as a positive integer for entry.	1
disk-store-name	Used if eviction-policy is not null. Default: default disk store. If specified, the disk-store-name must specify a disk store that is already defined in the cache.	default disk store

Example:

<cache>
  <cache-server port=4444>
    <client-subscription eviction-policy="entry | mem" capacity=35 overflow-directory="OverflowDir"></client-subscription>
    ...
  </cache-server>
</cache>

<custom-load-probe>

Application plug-in used to provide current and predicted server load information to the server locators.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Default: If this is not defined, the default Tanzu GemFire load probe is used.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.server.setLoadProbe

Example:

<custom-load-probe>
  <class-name>
    myPackage.MyLoadProbe
  </class-name>
</custom-load-probe>

<pool>

Use for client caches. Defines a client’s server pool used to communicate with servers running in a different cluster.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.client.PoolFactory

<pool> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
free-connection-timeout	Amount of time a thread will wait to get a pool connection before timing out with an exception. This timeout keeps threads from waiting indefinitely when the pool's `max-connections` has been reached and all connections in the pool are in use by other threads.	10000
idle-timeout	Maximum time, in milliseconds, a pool connection can stay open without being used when there are more than `min-connections` in the pool. Pings over the connection do not count as connection use. If set to -1, there is no idle timeout.	5000
load-conditioning-interval	Amount of time, in milliseconds, a pool connection can remain open before being eligible for silent replacement to a less-loaded server.	300000 (5 minutes)
max-connections	Maximum number of pool connections the pool can create. If the maximum connections are in use, an operation requiring a client-to-server connection blocks until a connection becomes available or the `free-connection-timeout` or `server-connection-timeout` is reached. If set to -1, there is no maximum. The setting must indicate a cap greater than `min-connections`. Note: If you need to use this to cap your pool connections, you should deactivate the pool attribute `pr-single-hop-enabled`. Leaving single hop enabled can increase thrashing and lower performance.	-1
min-connections	Minimum number of pool connections to keep available at all times. Used to establish the initial connection pool. If set to 0 (zero), no connection is created until an operation requires it. This number is the starting point, with more connections added later as needed, up to the `max-connection` setting. The setting must be an integer greater than or equal to 0.	1
multiuser-authentication	Used for installations with security where you want to accommodate multiple users within a single client. If set to true, the pool provides authorization for multiple user instances in the same client application, and each user accesses the cache through its own `RegionService` instance. If false, the client either uses no authorization or just provides credentials for the single client process.	false
name	Name of this pool. Used in the client region pool-name to assign this pool to a region in the client cache. Note: This is a required property with no default setting.	none
ping-interval	How often to communicate with the server to show the client is alive, set in milliseconds. Pings are only sent when the ping-interval elapses between normal client messages. Note: Set this lower than the server's `maximum-time-between-pings`.	10000
pr-single-hop-enabled	Setting used to improve access to partitioned region data in the servers. Indicates whether to use metadata about the partitioned region data storage locations to decide where to send some data requests. This allows a client to send a data operation directly to the server hosting the key. Without this, the client contacts any available server and that server contacts the data store. This is used only for operations that can be carried out on a server-by-server basis, like put, get, and destroy.	true
read-timeout	Maximum time, in milliseconds, for the client to wait for a response from a server.	10000
retry-attempts	Number of times to retry a client request before giving up. If one server fails, the pool moves to the next, and so on until it is successful or it hits this limit. If the available servers are fewer than this setting, the pool will retry servers that have already failed until it reaches the limit. If this is set to -1, the pool tries every available server once.	-1
server-connection-timeout	Amount of time a thread will wait to get a pool connection towards specific server, before timing out with an exception. This timeout keeps threads from waiting indefinitely when the pool's `max-connections` has been reached and all connections in the pool are in use by other threads.	0
server-group	Logical named server group to use from the pool. A null value uses the global server group to which all servers belong. Note: This is only used when the `locator` list is defined.	null
socket-buffer-size	Size for socket buffers from the client to the server. Default: 32768.	32768
statistic-interval	Interval, in milliseconds, at which to send client statistics to the server. If set to -1, statistics are not sent.	-1
subscription-ack-interval	Time, in milliseconds, between messages to the primary server to acknowledge event receipt. Note: Used only when `subscription-redundancy` is not ‘0' (zero).	100
subscription-enabled	Boolean indicating whether the server should connect back to the client and automatically sends server-side cache update information. Any bind address information for the client is automatically passed to the server for use in the callbacks.	false
subscription-message- tracking-timeout	Time-to-live, in milliseconds, for entries in the client's message tracking list.	900000 (15 minutes)
subscription-redundancy	Number of servers to use as backup to the primary for highly available subscription queue management. If set to 0, none are used. If set to -1, all available servers are used.	0

Example:

<pool
  name="publisher"
  subscription-enabled="true">
  <locator
    host="myLocatorAddress1"
    port="12345"/>
 <locator
   host="myLocatorAddress2"
   port="45678"/>
</pool>

<locator>

Addresses and ports of the locators to connect to. You can define multiple locators for the pool.

Note: Provide a locator list or server list, but not both.

API: org.apache.geode.distributed.LocatorLauncher

<locator> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
host	Hostname of the locator
port	Port number of the locator

Example:

<pool ...>
  <locator
    host="myLocatorHost"
    port="12345"/>

<server>

Addresses and ports of the servers to connect to.

Note: Provide a server list or locator list, but not both.

Default:

API: org.apache.geode.distributed.ServerLauncher

<server> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
host	Hostname of the server
port	Port number of the server

Example:

<pool ...>
  <server
    host="myServerHost"
    port="123456"/>
</pool>

<disk-store>

Defines a pool of one or more disk stores, which can be used by regions, and client subscription queues.

Default: The cache default disk store, named “DEFAULT”, is used when disk is used but no disk store is named.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.DiskStore

<disk-store> Attributes

Table 10. <disk-store> Attributes
Attribute	Description	Default
name	The name of the Disk Store.
auto-compact	Set to true to automatically compact the disk files.
compaction-threshold	The threshold at which an oplog will become compactable. Until it reaches this threshold the oplog will not be compacted. The threshold is a percentage in the range 0 to 100.
allow-force-compaction	Set to true to allow disk compaction to be forced on this disk store.
max-oplog-size	The maximum size, in megabytes, of an oplog (operation log) file.
time-interval	The number of milliseconds that can elapse before unwritten data is written to disk.
write-buffer-size	The size of the write buffer that this disk store uses when writing data to disk. Larger values may increase performance but use more memory. The disk store allocates one direct memory buffer of this size.
queue-size	Maximum number of operations that can be asynchronously queued to be written to disk.
disk-usage-warning-percentage	Disk usage above this threshold generates a warning message. For example, if the threshold is set to 90%, then on a 1 TB drive falling under 100 GB of free disk space generates the warning. Set to "0" (zero) to deactivate.	90
disk-usage-critical-percentage	Disk usage above this threshold generates an error message and shuts down the member's cache. For example, if the threshold is set to 99%, then falling under 10 GB of free disk space on a 1 TB drive generates the error and shuts down the cache. Set to "0" (zero) to deactivate.	99

Example:

<disk-store
  name="DEFAULT"
  allow-force-compaction="true">
  <disk-dirs>
    <disk-dir>/export/thor/customerData</disk-dir>
    <disk-dir>/export/odin/customerData</disk-dir>
    <disk-dir>/export/embla/customerData</disk-dir>
  </disk-dirs>
</disk-store>

<disk-dirs>

An element of a disk store that defines a set of <disk-dir> elements.

<disk-dir>

Specifies a region or disk store’s disk directory.

<disk-dir> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
dir-size	Maximum amount of space to use for the disk store, in megabytes.	214748364 (2 petabytes)

Example:

<disk-dir
  dir-size="20480">/host3/users/gf/memberA_DStore</disk-dir>

<pdx>

Specifies the configuration for the Portable Data eXchange (PDX) method of serialization.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.CacheFactory.setPdxReadSerialized, setPdxDiskStore, setPdxPersistent, setPdxIgnoreUnreadFields and org.apache.geode.cache.ClientCacheFactory.setPdxReadSerialized, setPdxDiskStore, setPdxPersistent, setPdxIgnoreUnreadFields

<pdx> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
read-serialized	Set it to true if you want PDX deserialization to produce a PdxInstance instead of an instance of the domain class.
ignore-unread-fields	Set it to true if you do not want unread PDX fields to be preserved during deserialization. You can use this option to save memory. Set to true only in members that are only reading data from the cache.
persistent	Set to true if you are using persistent regions. This causes the PDX type information to be written to disk.
disk-store-name	If using persistence, this attribute allows you to configure the disk store that the PDX type data will be stored in. By default, the default disk store is used.

Example:

<cache>
  <pdx persistent="true" disk-store-name="myDiskStore">
    <pdx-serializer>
      <class-name>
        org.apache.geode.pdx.ReflectionBasedAutoSerializer
      </class-name>
      <parameter name="classes">
        <string>com.company.domain.DomainObject</string>>
      </parameter>
    </pdx-serializer>
  </pdx>
    ...
</cache>

<pdx-serializer>

Allows you to configure the PdxSerializer for this Tanzu GemFire member.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Default:

API: org.apache.geode.cache.CacheFactory.setPdxSerializer

Example:

<cache>
  <pdx>
    <pdx-serializer>
     <class-name>com.company.ExamplePdxSerializer</class-name>
    </pdx-serializer>
  </pdx>
  ...
</cache>

<region-attributes>

Specifies a region attributes template that can be named (by id) and referenced (by refid) later in the cache.xml and through the API.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory or org.apache.geode.cache.ClientRegionFactory

<region-attributes> Attributes

Attribute Description Default

concurrency-level

Gives an estimate of the maximum number of application threads that will concurrently access a region entry at one time. This attribute does not apply to partitioned regions. This attribute helps Tanzu GemFire optimize the use of system resources and reduce thread contention. This sets an initial parameter on the underlying java.util.ConcurrentHashMap used for storing region entries.

Note: Before you modify this, read the concurrency level description, then see the Java API documentation for java.util.ConcurrentHashMap.

API: setConcurrencyLevel

Example:

<region-attributes
  concurrency-level="10">
</region-attributes>

16 (threads)

data-policy

Specifies how the local cache handles data for a region. This setting controls behavior such as local data storage and region initialization.

Note: Configure the most common options using the region shortcuts, RegionShortcut and ClientRegionShortcut. The default data-policy of normal specifies local cache storage. The empty policy specifies no local storage. In the region shortcuts, empty corresponds to the settings with the string PROXY. You can use an empty region for event delivery to and from the local cache without the memory overhead of data storage.

You can specify the following data policies:

empty	No data storage in the local cache. The region always appears empty. Use this for event delivery to and from the local cache without the memory overhead of data storage - zero-footprint producers that only distribute data to others and zero-footprint consumers that only see events. To receive events with this, set the region's `subscription-attributes` `interest-policy` to all.
normal	Data used locally (accessed with `get`, stored with `put`, etc.) is stored in the local cache. This policy allows the contents in the cache to differ from other caches.
partition	Data is partitioned across local and remote caches using the automatic data distribution behavior of partitioned regions. Additional configuration is done in the `partition-attributes`.
replicate	The region is initialized with the data from other caches. After initialization, all events for the distributed region are automatically copied into the local region, maintaining a replica of the entire distributed region in the local cache. Operations that would cause the contents to differ with other caches are not allowed. This is compatible with local `scope`, behaving the same as for normal.
persistent-partition	Behaves the same as `partition` and also persists data to disk.
persistent-replicate	Behaves the same as `replicate` and also persists data to disk.
preloaded	Initializes like a replicated region, then, once initialized, behaves like a normal region.

API: setDataPolicy

Example:

<region-attributes
  data-policy="replicate">
</region-attributes>

This is similar to using a region shortcut withrefid, however when you use the REPLICATE region shortcut, it automatically sets the region's scope to distributed-ack.

<region-attributes
  refid="REPLICATE">
</region-attributes>

If you use data-policy, you must set the scope explicitly.

normal

enable-async-conflation

For TCP/IP distributions between peers, specifies whether to allow aggregation of asynchronous messages sent by the producer member for the region. This is a special-purpose Boolean attribute that applies only when asynchronous queues are used for slow consumers. A false value deactivates conflation so that all asynchronous messages are sent individually. This special-purpose attribute gives you extra control over peer-to-peer communication between distributed regions using TCP/IP. This attribute does not apply to client/server communication or to communication using the UDP unicast or IP multicast protocols.

Note: To use this attribute, the multicast-enabled region attribute disable-tcp in gemfire.properties must be false (the default for both). In addition, asynchronous queues must be enabled for slow consumers, specified with the async* gemfire properties.

API: setEnableAsyncConflation

Example:

<region-attributes
  enable-async-conflation="false">
</region-attributes>

true

enable-subscription-conflation

Boolean for server regions that specifies whether the server can conflate its messages to the client. A true value enables conflation.

Note:

The client can override this setting with the conflate-events property in its gemfire.properties.

API: setEnableSubscriptionConflation

Example:

<region-attributes
  enable-subscription-conflation="true">
</region-attributes>

false

gateway-sender-ids

Specifies one or more gateway sender IDs to use for distributing region events to remote Tanzu GemFire sites. Specify multiple IDs as a comma-separated list.

API: addGatewaySenderId

Example:

<region-attributes
  gateway-sender-ids="nwsender,swsender">
</region-attributes>

not set

async-event-queue-ids

Specifies one or more asynchronous event queues to use for distributing region events an AsyncEventListener implementation (for example, for write-behind cache event handling). Specify multiple IDs as a comma-separated list.

API: addAsyncEventQueueId

Example:

<region-attributes
  async-event-queue-ids="customerqueue,ordersqueue">
</region-attributes>

not set

hub-id

If the enable-gateway attribute is set to true, a comma-separated list of gateway hub IDs that receive events from the region.

Used only with GemFire version 6.x gateway configurations. For GemFire 7.0 configuration, see the gateway-sender-id attribute of the <region-attributes> element.

null

Stores the region attribute settings in the cache with this identifier. Once stored, the attributes can be retrieved using the region attribute refid.

API: setId

Example:

<region-attributes
  id="persistent-replicated">
</region-attributes>

not set

ignore-jta

Boolean that determines whether operations on this region participate in active JTA transactions or ignore them and operate outside of the transactions. This is primarily used in cache loaders, writers, and listeners that need to perform non-transactional operations on a region, such as caching a result set.

API: setIgnoreJTA

Example:

<region-attributes
  ignore-jta="true">
</region-attributes>

false

index-update-type

Specifies whether region indexes are maintained synchronously with region modifications, or asynchronously in a background thread. In the cache.xml file, this is set as a value, asynchronous or synchronous, assigned to the index-update-type region attribute. Set this through the API by passing a boolean to the setIndexMaintenanceSynchronous method.

API: setIndexMaintenanceSynchronous

Example:

<region-attributes
  index-update-type="asynchronous">
</region-attributes>

synchronous updates

initial-capacity

Together with the load-factor region attribute, sets the initial parameters on the underlying java.util.ConcurrentHashMap used for storing region entries.

API: setInitialCapacity

Example:

<region-attributes
  initial-capacity="20">
</region-attributes>

is-lock-grantor

Determines whether this member defines itself as the lock grantor for the region at region creation time. This only specifies whether the member becomes lock grantor at creation and does not reflect the current state of the member's lock grantor status. The member's lock grantor status may change if another member subsequently defines the region with is-lock-grantor set to true. This attribute is only relevant for regions with global scope, as only they allow locking. It affects implicit and explicit locking.

API: setLockGrantor

Example:

<region-attributes
  is-lock-grantor="true">
</region-attributes>

false

load-factor

Together with the initial-capacity region attribute, sets the initial parameters on the underlying java.util.ConcurrentHashMap used for storing region entries. This must be a floating point number between 0 and 1, inclusive.

Note:

Before you set this attribute, read the discussion of initial capacity and load factor, then see the Java API documentation for java.util.ConcurrentHashMap.

API: setLoadFactor

Example:

<region-attributes
  load-factor="0.85">
</region-attributes>

.75

mirror-type Deprecated

multicast-enabled

Boolean that specifies whether distributed operations on a region should use multicasting. To enable this, multicast must be enabled for the cluster with the mcast-port gemfire.properties setting.

API: setMulticastEnabled

Example:

<region-attributes
  multicast-enabled="true">
</region-attributes>

false

pool-name

Identifies the region as a client region and specifies the server pool the region is to use. The named pool must be defined in the client cache before the region is created. If this is not set, the region does not connect to the servers as a client region.

API: setPoolName

Examples:

This declaration creates the region as a client region with a server pool named DatabasePool. This pool-name specification is required, as there are multiple pools in the client cache:


<client-cache>
  <pool name="DatabasePool"
    subscription-enabled="true">
    ...
  </pool>
  <pool name="OtherPool"
    subscription-enabled="true">
    ...
  </pool>
  <region ...
    <region-attributes
      pool-name="DatabasePool">
    </region-attributes>
    ...

This declaration creates the region as a client region assigned the single pool that is defined for the client cache. Here the pool-name specification is implied to be the only pool that exists in the cache:


<client-cache>
  <pool name="publisher"
    subscription-enabled="true">
    ...
  </pool>
  <region
    name="myRegion"
    refid="CACHING_PROXY">
  </region>
</client-cache>

not set

disk-store-name

Assigns the region to the disk store with this name from the disk stores defined for the cache. Persist region data to disk by defining the region as persistent using the Shortcut Attribute Options or data-policy settings. Overflow data to disk by implementing LRU eviction-attributes with an action of overflow to disk. Each disk store defines the file system directories to use, how data is written to disk, and other disk storage maintenance properties. In addition, the disk-synchronous region attribute specifies whether writes are done synchronously or asynchronously.

API: setDiskStoreName

Example:

<region-attributes
  disk-store-name="myStoreA" >
</region-attributes>

null

disk-synchronous

For regions that write to disk, boolean that specifies whether disk writes are done synchronously for the region.

API: setDiskSynchronous

Example:

<region-attributes
  disk-store-name="myStoreA"
  disk-synchronous="true">
</region-attributes>

true

refid

Retrieves region shortcuts and user-defined named region attributes for attributes initialization

API: setRefId

Example:

<region-attributes
  refid="persistent-replicated">
  <!-- Override any stored
    attribute settings that you
    need to ... -->
</region-attributes>

not set

scope

Definition: Determines how updates to region entries are distributed to the other caches in the cluster where the region and entry are defined. Scope also determines whether to allow remote invocation of some of the region's event handlers, and whether to use region entry versions to provide consistent updates across replicated regions.

Note:

You can configure the most common of these options with Tanzu GemFire region shortcuts in RegionShortcut and ClientRegionShortcut.

Note:

Server regions that are not partitioned must be replicated with distributed-ack or global scope. The region shortcuts that specify REPLICATE have distributed-ack scope.

Set one of the following scope values:

local	No distribution. The region is visible only to threads running inside the member.
distributed-no-ack	Events are distributed to remote caches with no acknowledgement required.
distributed-ack	Events are distributed to remote caches with receipt acknowledgement required. Region entry versions are used to provide consistent updates across members of the cluster.
global	Events are distributed to remote caches with global locking to ensure distributed cache consistency.

API: setScope

Example:

<region-attributes
  scope="distributed-ack">
</region-attributes>

distributed-no-ack

statistics-enabled

Boolean specifying whether to gather statistics on the region. Must be true to use expiration on the region. Tanzu GemFire provides a standard set of statistics for cached regions and region entries, which give you information for fine-tuning your cluster. Unlike other Tanzu GemFire statistics, statistics for local and distributed regions are not archived and cannot be charted. They are kept in instances of org.apache.geode.cache.CacheStatistics and made available through the region and its entries through the Region.getStatistics and Region.Entry.getStatistics methods.

API: setStatisticsEnabled

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
</region-attributes>

false

cloning-enabled

Determines how fromDelta applies deltas to the local cache for delta propagation. When true, the updates are applied to a clone of the value and then the clone is saved to the cache. When false, the value is modified in place in the cache.

API: setCloningEnabled

Example:

<region-attributes
  cloning-enabled="true">
</region-attributes>

false

concurrency-checks-enabled

Determines whether members perform checks to provide consistent handling for concurrent or out-of-order updates to distributed regions. See Consistency for Region Updates.

Note: Applications that use a client-cache may want to deactivate concurrency checking in order to see all events for a region. Tanzu GemFire server members can continue using concurrency checks for the region, but they will pass all events to the client cache. This configuration ensures that the client sees all events, but it does not prevent the client cache from becoming out-of-sync with the server cache.

API: setConcurrencyChecksEnabled

Example:

<region-attributes
 concurrency-checks-enabled="true">
</region-attributes>

true

off-heap

Specifies that the region uses off-heap memory to store entry values, including values for region entries and queue entries. The region will still use heap memory for everything else, such as entry keys and the ConcurrentHashMap.

API: setOffHeap

Example:

<region-attributes
  off-heap="true">
</region-attributes>

false

<key-constraint>

Defines the type of object to be allowed for the region entry keys. This must be a fully-qualified class name. The attribute ensures that the keys for the region entries are all of the same class. If key-constraint is not used, the region’s keys can be of any class. This attribute, along with value-constraint, is useful for querying and indexing because it provides object type information to the query engine.

Note: Set the constraint in every cache where you create or update the region entries. For client/server installations, match constraints between client and server and between clusters. The constraint is only checked in the cache that does the entry put or create operation. To avoid deserializing the object, the constraint is not checked when the entry is distributed to other caches.

Default: not set

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setKeyConstraint

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <key-constraint>
    java.lang.String
  </key-constraint>
</region-attributes>

<value-constraint>

Defines the type of object to be allowed for the region entry values. This must be a fully-qualified class name. If value constraint isn’t used, the region’s value can be of any class. This attribute, along with key-constraint, is useful for querying and indexing because it provides object type information to the query engine.

Default: not set

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setValueConstraint

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <value-constraint>
    cacheRunner.Portfolio
  </value-constraint>
</region-attributes>

<region-time-to-live>

Expiration setting that specifies how long the region can remain in the cache without anyone accessing or updating it.

Default: not set - no expiration of this type

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setRegionTimeToLive

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <region-time-to-live>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="3600"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </region-time-to-live>
</region-attributes>

<expiration-attributes>

Within the entry-time-to-live or entry-idle-time element, this element specifies the expiration rules for removing old region entries that you are not using. You can destroy or invalidate entries, either locally or across the cluster. Within the region-time-to-live or region-idle-time element, this element specifies the expiration rules for the entire region.

API: See APIs for entry-time-to-live, entry-idle-time, region-time-to-live, region-idle-time

<expiration-attributes> Attributes

timeout

Number of seconds before a region or an entry expires. If timeout is not specified, it defaults to zero (which means no expiration).

action

Action that should take place when a region or an entry expires.

Select one of the following expiration actions:

local-destroy	Removes the region or entry from the local cache, but does not distribute the removal operation to remote members. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries.
destroy	Removes the region or entry completely from the cache. Destroy actions are distributed according to the region's distribution settings. Use this option when the region or entry is no longer needed for any application in the cluster.
invalidate	Default expiration action. Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid. Distributes the invalidation according to the region's scope. This is the proper choice when the region or the entry is no longer valid for any application in the cluster.
local-invalidate	Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid but does not distribute the operation. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries. Local region invalidation is only supported for regions that are not configured as replicated regions.

invalidate

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <region-time-to-live>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="60"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </region-time-to-live>
</region-attributes>

<custom-expiry>

Specifies the custom class that implements org.apache.geode.cache.CustomExpiry. You define this class in order to override the region-wide settings for specific entries. See Configure Data Expiration for an example.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setCustomEntryIdleTimeout, setCustomEntryTimeToLive

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <expiration-attributes
    timeout="60"
    action="local-destroy"/>
  <custom-expiry>
    <class-name>
      com.megaconglomerate.mypackage.MyClass
    </class-name>
  </custom-expiry>
</region-attributes>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

<region-idle-time>

Expiration setting that specifies how long the region can remain in the cache without anyone accessing it.

Note: To ensure reliable read behavior across the partitioned region, use region-time-to-live for region expiration instead of this setting.

Default: not set - no expiration of this type

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setRegionIdleTimeout

Example:

<region-attributes statistics-enabled="true">
  <region-idle-time>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="3600"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </region-idle-time>
</region-attributes>

<expiration-attributes>

API: See APIs for entry-time-to-live, entry-idle-time, region-time-to-live, region-idle-time

<expiration-attributes> Attributes

timeout

Number of seconds before a region or an entry expires. If timeout is not specified, it defaults to zero (which means no expiration).

action

Action that should take place when a region or an entry expires.

Select one of the following expiration actions:

local-destroy	Removes the region or entry from the local cache, but does not distribute the removal operation to remote members. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries.
destroy	Removes the region or entry completely from the cache. Destroy actions are distributed according to the region's distribution settings. Use this option when the region or entry is no longer needed for any application in the cluster.
invalidate	Default expiration action. Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid. Distributes the invalidation according to the region's scope. This is the proper choice when the region or the entry is no longer valid for any application in the cluster.
local-invalidate	Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid but does not distribute the operation. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries. Local region invalidation is only supported for regions that are not configured as replicated regions.

invalidate

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <region-idle-time>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="60"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </region-idle-time>
</region-attributes>

<custom-expiry>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setCustomEntryIdleTimeout, setCustomEntryTimeToLive

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <expiration-attributes
    timeout="60"
    action="local-destroy"/>
  <custom-expiry>
    <class-name>
      com.megaconglomerate.mypackage.MyClass
    </class-name>
  </custom-expiry>
</region-attributes>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

<entry-time-to-live>

Expiration setting that specifies how long the region’s entries can remain in the cache without anyone accessing or updating them. See <expiration-attributes> for details.

Default: not set - no expiration of this type.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setEntryTimeToLive

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <entry-time-to-live>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="60"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </entry-time-to-live>
</region-attributes>

<expiration-attributes>

API: See APIs for entry-time-to-live, entry-idle-time, region-time-to-live, region-idle-time

<expiration-attributes> Attributes

timeout

Number of seconds before a region or an entry expires. If timeout is not specified, it defaults to zero (which means no expiration).

action

Action that should take place when a region or an entry expires.

Select one of the following expiration actions:

local-destroy	Removes the region or entry from the local cache, but does not distribute the removal operation to remote members. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries.
destroy	Removes the region or entry completely from the cache. Destroy actions are distributed according to the region's distribution settings. Use this option when the region or entry is no longer needed for any application in the cluster.
invalidate	Default expiration action. Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid. Distributes the invalidation according to the region's scope. This is the proper choice when the region or the entry is no longer valid for any application in the cluster.
local-invalidate	Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid but does not distribute the operation. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries. Local region invalidation is only supported for regions that are not configured as replicated regions.

invalidate

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <entry-time-to-live>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="60"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </entry-time-to-live>
</region-attributes>

<custom-expiry>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setCustomEntryIdleTimeout, setCustomEntryTimeToLive

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <expiration-attributes
    timeout="60"
   action="local-destroy"/>
  <custom-expiry>
    <class-name>
      com.megaconglomerate.mypackage.MyClass
    </class-name>
  </custom-expiry>
</region-attributes>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

<entry-idle-time>

Expiration setting that specifies how long the region’s entries can remain in the cache without anyone accessing them. See <expiration-attributes> for details.

Note: To ensure reliable read behavior across the partitioned region, use entry-time-to-live for entry expiration instead of this setting.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setEntryIdleTimeout

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <entry-idle-time>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="60"
      action="local-invalidate"/>
  </entry-idle-time>
</region-attributes>

<expiration-attributes>

API: See APIs for entry-time-to-live, entry-idle-time, region-time-to-live, region-idle-time

<expiration-attributes> Attributes

timeout

Number of seconds before a region or an entry expires. If timeout is not specified, it defaults to zero (which means no expiration).

action

Action that should take place when a region or an entry expires.

Select one of the following expiration actions:

local-destroy	Removes the region or entry from the local cache, but does not distribute the removal operation to remote members. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries.
destroy	Removes the region or entry completely from the cache. Destroy actions are distributed according to the region's distribution settings. Use this option when the region or entry is no longer needed for any application in the cluster.
invalidate	Default expiration action. Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid. Distributes the invalidation according to the region's scope. This is the proper choice when the region or the entry is no longer valid for any application in the cluster.
local-invalidate	Marks an entry or all entries in the region as invalid but does not distribute the operation. You cannot use this action on partitioned region entries. Local region invalidation is only supported for regions that are not configured as replicated regions.

invalidate

Example:

<region-attributes
  statistics-enabled="true">
  <entry-idle-time>
    <expiration-attributes
      timeout="60"
      action="local-destroy"/>
  </entry-idle-time>
</region-attributes>

<custom-expiry>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setCustomEntryIdleTimeout, setCustomEntryTimeToLive

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <expiration-attributes
    timeout="60"
    action="local-destroy"/>
    <custom-expiry>
      <class-name>
        com.megaconglomerate.mypackage.MyClass
      </class-name>
    </custom-expiry>
</region-attributes>

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

<partition-attributes>

Defines the region as partitioned and controls partitioning behavior. This is set during the region creation in the first data store for the partitioned region.

Note: With the exception of local-max-memory, all members defining a partitioned region must use the same partition attribute settings.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setPartitionAttributes

<partition-attributes> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
colocated-with	The full name of a region to colocate with this region. The named region must exist before this region is created.	null
local-max-memory	Maximum megabytes of memory set aside for this region in the local member. This is all memory used for this partitioned region - for primary buckets and any redundant copies. This value must be smaller than the Java settings for the initial or maximum JVM heap. When the memory use goes above this value, Tanzu GemFire issues a warning, but operation continues. Besides setting the maximum memory to use for the member, this setting also tells Tanzu GemFire how to balance the load between members where the region is defined. For example, if one member sets this value to twice the value of another member’s setting, Tanzu GemFire works to keep the ratio between the first and the second at two-to-one, regardless of how little memory the region consumes. This is a local parameter that applies only to the local member. A value of 0 deactivates local data caching.	90% (of local heap)
recovery-delay	Applies when `redundant-copies` is greater than zero. The number of milliseconds to wait after a member crashes before reestablishing redundancy for the region. A setting of -1 deactivates automatic recovery of redundancy after member failure.	-1
redundant-copies	Number of extra copies that the partitioned region must maintain for each entry. Range: 0-3. If you specify 1, this partitioned region maintains the original and one backup, for a total of two copies. A value of 0 deactivates redundancy.	0
startup-recovery-delay	Applies when `redundant-copies` is greater than zero. The number of milliseconds a newly started member should wait before trying to satisfy redundancy of region data stored on other members. A setting of -1 deactivates automatic recovery of redundancy after new members join.	0
total-max-memory	Maximum combined megabytes of memory to be used by all processes hosting this region for all copies, primary and redundant.	`Integer.MAX_VALUE`
total-num-buckets	Total number of buckets or data storage areas allotted for the entire partitioned region in the distributed cache. As data moves from one member to another, the entries in a bucket move as one unit. This value should be a prime number at least four times the number of data stores. More buckets increases overhead, however, especially when redundant-copies = 2 or 3 .	113

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <partition-attributes
    redundant-copies="1"
    total-num-buckets= "613"/>
</region-attributes>

<partition-resolver>

Describes a custom PartitionResolver for a region.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.PartitionAttributesFactory.setPartitionResolver

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

<partition-resolver> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
name	The name of this custom PartitionResolver.

Example:

<region name="trades">
  <region-attributes>
    <partition-attributes>
      <partition-resolver name="TradesPartitionResolver">
        <class-name>myPackage.TradesPartitionResolver</class-name>
      </partition-resolver>
    </partition-attributes>
  </region-attributes>
</region>

<partition-listener>

Defines a custom PartitionListener for a partitioned region.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.PartitionAttributesFactory.PartitionListener

Example:

<partition-attributes redundant-copies="1">
  <partition-listener>
    <class-name>com.myCompany.ColocatingPartitionListener</class-name>
    <parameter name="viewRegions">
      <string>/customer/ViewA,/customer/ViewB</string>
    </parameter>            
  </partition-listener>
</partition-attributes>

<fixed-partition-attributes>

Describes a partition in a Fixed Partitioned Region.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.PartitionAttributesFactory.addFixedPartitionAttributes

<fixed-partition-attributes> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
partition-name	The name of this fixed partition.
is-primary	Set to true if this partition is the primary partition.	false
num-buckets	The number of buckets assigned to this partition.

Example:

<cache>
  <region name="Trades">
    <region-attributes>
      <partition-attributes
        redundant-copies="1">
        <partition-resolver name="QuarterFixedPartitionResolver">
          <fixed-partition-attributes
            partition-name="Q1"
            is-primary="true"/>
            <fixed-partition-attributes
               partition-name="Q3"
               is-primary="false"
           num-buckets="6"/>
      </partition-attributes>
    </region-attributes>
  </region>
</cache>

<membership-attributes>

Establishes reliability requirements and behavior for a region. Use this to configure the region to require one or more membership roles to be running in the system for reliable access to the region. You can set up your own roles, such as producer or backup, specifying each role as a string. Membership attributes have no effect unless one or more required roles are specified.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setMembershipAttributes

<membership-attributes> Attributes

loss-action

Set one of the following values to specify how access to the region is affected when one or more required roles are lost.

full-access	Access to the region is unaffected when required roles are missing.
limited-access	Only local access to the region is allowed when required roles are missing.
no-access	The region is unavailable when required roles are missing.
reconnect	Loss of required roles causes the entire cache to be closed.

no_access

resumption-action

Specifies how the region is affected by resumption of reliability when one or more missing required roles return to the distributed membership. Set one of the following values:

none	No special action takes place when reliability resumes.
reinitialize	Resumption of reliability causes the region to be cleared of all data and replicated regions will do a new getInitialImage operation to repopulate the region.

reinitialize

Example:

<!-- If there is no "producer" member
  running, do not allow access to the region -->
<region-attributes>
  <membership-attributes
    loss-action="no-access"
    resumption-action="none">
    <required-role
      name="producer">
    </required-role>
  </membership-attributes>
</region-attributes>

<required-role>

Specifies a role that is required for reliable access to the region.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.MembershipAttributes

<required-role> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
name	The name of the required role.

Example:

<membership-attributes
  loss-action="no-access"
  resumption-action="none">
  <required-role name="producer"/>
</membership-attributes>

<subscription-attributes>

Specifies subscriber requirements and behavior for the region. There is one subscription attribute, interest-policy, that defines which distributed entry events are delivered to the local region.

Note: The interest policy determines which events are delivered, but the data-policy determines how the events are applied to the cache.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setSubscriptionAttributes

<subscription-attributes> Attributes

Attribute Description Default

interest-policy

The two interest-policy options are:

cache-content	The default, registers interest in events only for entries that are already in the local region. For partitioned regions, the local member must hold the primary copy of the entry's data.
all	Registers interest in events for all entries that are anywhere in the distributed or partitioned region, regardless of whether they are already present in the local cache.

cache-content

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <subscription-attributes
   interest-policy="all"/>
</region-attributes>

<cache-loader>

An event-handler plug-in that allows you to program for cache misses. At most, one cache loader can be defined in each member for the region. For distributed regions, a cache loader may be invoked remotely from other members that have the region defined. When an entry get results in a cache miss in a region with a cache loader defined, the loader’s load method is called. This method is usually programmed to retrieve data from an outside data source, but it can do anything required by your application.

For partitioned regions, if you want to have a cache loader, install an instance of the cache loader in every data store. Partitioned regions support partitioned loading, where each cache loader loads only the data entries in the local member. If data redundancy is configured, data is loaded only if the local member holds the primary copy.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setCacheLoader

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <cache-loader>
    <class-name>quickstart.SimpleCacheLoader</class-name>
  </cache-loader>
</region-attributes>

<cache-writer>

An event-handler plug-in that allows you to receive before-event notification for changes to the region and its entries. It also has the ability to cancel events. At most, one cache writer can be defined in each member for the region. A cache writer may be invoked remotely from other members that have the region defined.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setCacheWriter

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <cache-writer>
    <class-name>quickstart.SimpleCacheWriter</class-name>
  </cache-writer>
</region-attributes>

<cache-listener>

An event-handler plug-in that receives after-event notification of changes to the region and its entries. Any number of cache listeners can be defined for a region in any member. Tanzu GemFire offers several listener types with callbacks to handle data and process events. Depending on the data-policy and the interest-policy subscription attributes, a cache listener may receive only events that originate in the local cache, or it may receive those events along with events that originate remotely.

Specify the Java class for the cache listener and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.addCacheListener

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <cache-listener>
    <class-name>
      quickstart.SimpleCacheListener
    </class-name>
  </cache-listener>
</region-attributes>

<compressor>

A compressor registers a custom class that extends Compressor to support compression on a region.

Example:

 ...
<compressor>
  <class-name>
    <parameter>
      <string>
      <declarable>
</compressor>
...

<eviction-attributes>

Specifies whether and how to control a region’s size. Size is controlled by removing least recently used (LRU) entries to make space for new ones. This may be done through destroy or overflow actions. You can configure your region for lru-heap-percentage with an eviction action of local-destroy using stored region attributes.

Default: Uses the lru-entry-count algorithm.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory.setEvictionAttributes

Example:

<region-attributes>
  <eviction-attributes>
    <lru-entry-count
      maximum="1000"
      action="overflow-to-disk"/>
  </eviction-attributes>
</region-attributes>

<lru-entry-count>

Using the maximum attribute, specifies maximum region capacity based on entry count.

<lru-entry-count> Attributes

action

Set one of the following eviction actions:

local-destroy

Removes the entry from the local cache, but does not distribute the removal operation to remote members. This action can be applied to an entry in a partitioned region, but is not recommended if redundancy is enabled (redundant-copies > 0), as it introduces inconsistencies between the redundant buckets. When applied to an entry in a replicated region, Tanzu GemFire silently changes the region type to "preloaded" to accommodate the local modification.

overflow-to-disk

The entry's value is overflowed to disk and set to null in memory. The entry's key is retained in the cache.

local-destroy

maximum

The maximum number of entries allowed in a region.

<lru-heap-percentage>

Runs evictions when the Tanzu GemFire resource manager says to. The manager orders evictions when the total cache size is over the heap or off-heap percentage limit specified in the resource manager configuration. You can declare a Java class that implements the ObjectSizer interface to measure the size of objects in the Region.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

<lru-heap-percentage> Attributes

action

Set one of the following eviction actions:

local-destroy

overflow-to-disk

The entry's value is overflowed to disk and set to null in memory. The entry's key is retained in the cache.

local-destroy

<lru-memory-size>

Using the maximum attribute, specifies maximum region capacity based on the amount of memory used, in megabytes. You can declare a Java class that implements the ObjectSizer interface to measure the size of objects in the Region.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

<lru-memory-size> Attributes

action

Set one of the following eviction actions:

local-destroy

overflow-to-disk

The entry's value is overflowed to disk and set to null in memory. The entry's key is retained in the cache.

local-destroy

maximum

The maximum amount of memory used in the region, in megabytes.

<jndi-bindings>

Specifies the binding for a data-source used in transaction management. See Configuring Database Connections Using JNDI.

Example:

<jndi-bindings>
  <jndi-binding type="XAPooledDataSource"
    jndi-name="newDB2trans"
    init-pool-size="20"
    max-pool-size="100"
    idle-timeout-seconds="20"
    blocking-timeout-seconds="5"
    login-timeout-seconds="10"
    xa-datasource-class="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource"
    user-name="mitul"
    password="encrypted(83f0069202c571faf1ae6c42b4ad46030e4e31c17409e19a)">
    <config-property>
      <config-property-name>Description</config-property-name>
      <config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
      <config-property-value>pooled_transact</config-property-value>
    </config-property>
    <config-property>
      <config-property-name>DatabaseName</config-property-name>
      <config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
      <config-property-value>newDB</config-property-value>
    </config-property>
    <config-property>
      <config-property-name>CreateDatabase</config-property-name>
      <config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
      <config-property-value>create</config-property-value>
    </config-property>        
    ...
  </jndi-binding>
 </jndi-bindings>

<jndi-binding>

For every datasource that is bound to the JNDI tree, there should be one <jndi-binding> element. This element describes the property and the configuration of the datasource. Tanzu GemFire uses the attributes of the <jndi-binding> element for configuration. Use the <config-property> element to configure properties for the datasource.

We recommend that you set the username and password with the user-name and password jndi-binding attributes rather than using the <config-property> element.

<jndi-binding> Attributes

Attribute Description Default

blocking-timeout-seconds The number of seconds that a connection remains associated with a transaction. If this value is exceeded, the connection is disassociated from the transaction. 120

conn-pooled-datasource-class Java class used for the PooledDataSource type.

connection-url

URL for connecting to the datasource.

Note:

If you are connecting to a JCA data source driver that implements XA transactions (where the jndi-binding type is XAPooledDataSource), do not use this attribute. Instead, define configuration properties for your database. See <config-property> for an example.

idle-timeout-seconds The maximum number of seconds that a connection can remain idle in a pool. When this threshold is reached, the connection is removed. 600

init-pool-size The initial pool size of a PooledConnection (an XAConnection or a non-XAConnection). 10

jdbc-driver-class Java class used for the SimpleDataSource type.

jndi-name The jndi-name attribute is the key binding parameter. If the value of jndi-name is a DataSource, it is bound as java:/myDatabase, where myDatabase is the name you assign to your data source. If the data source cannot be bound to JNDI at runtime, Tanzu GemFire logs a warning.

The maximum number of seconds for which a thread seeking a connection from a connection pool may be blocked. If the thread is unable to obtain connection in the stipulated time, a PoolException is thrown

If a connection is available the thread returns immediately.

If an existing connection is not available and the maximum number of connections in the pool has not been reached, a new connection is created and the thread returns immediately with the connection.

If a connection is not available, the thread blocks for the specified time while waiting for an available connection.

managed-conn-factory-class If the Resource Adapter is of type ManagedDataSource, this class becomes the source of the PooledConnection. (This class interface complies with the J2CA Java 2 Connector Architecture.)

max-pool-size The maximum size of the PooledConnection. 30

password Password to access the datasource.

transaction-type

When the type attribute is set to ManagedDataSource, specifies the type of transaction. Set one of the following transaction-types:

XATransaction	Select this option when you want to use aManagedConnection interface with a Java Transaction Manager to define transaction boundries. This option allows a ManagedDataSource to participate in a transaction with a Tanzu GemFire cache.
NoTransaction	No transactional behavior is used.
LocalTransaction	Select this option when using a ManagedDataSource that is not managed by the Java Transaction manager.

none

type

Set one of the following types:

XAPooledDataSource	Pooled SQL connections. For this type, you must also set the `xa-datasource-class` attribute.
ManagedDataSource	JNDI binding type for the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA). ManagedConnectionFactory. For information about the ManagedConnection interface, see Interface ManagedConnection in the Oracle documentation.
PooledDataSource	Pooled SQL connections. For this type, you must also set the `conn-pooled-datasource-class` attribute.
SimpleDataSource	Single SQL connection. No pooling of SQL connections is done. Connections are generated on the fly and cannot be reused. For this type, you must also set the `jdbc-driver-class` attribute.

none

user-name User name to access to the datasource.

xa-datasource-class Java class used for the XAPooledDataSource type.

<config-property>

A configuration property of the datasource. Use the sub-elements to identify the name, datatype, and value of the property.

Default:

Example:

<config-property>
  <config-property-name>DatabaseName</config-property-name>
  <config-property-type>java.lang.String</config-property-type>
  <config-property-value>newDB</config-property-value>
</config-property>

Configuration properties vary depending on the database vendor. See Configuring Database Connections Using JNDI for examples of different configuration property configurations.

<config-property-name>

The name of this datasource property.

<config-property-type>

The data type of this datasource property.

<config-property-value>

The value of this datasource property.

<region>

Defines a region in the cache. See <region-attributes> for more details on configuring regions. You can specify zero or more subregions within a region. See Create and Access Data Subregions for restrictions on creating subregions. For example, you cannot create a partitioned subregion.

Default:

API: org.apache.geode.cache.RegionFactory or org.apache.geode.cache.ClientRegionFactory

<region> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
name	Specify the name for the region. See Region Management for details.
refid	Used to apply predefined attributes to the region being defined. If the nested “region-attributes” element has its own “refid”, then it will cause the “refid” on the region to be ignored. The “refid” region attribute can be set to the name of a RegionShortcut or a ClientRegionShortcut. For more information, see Region Shortcuts and Custom Named Region Attributes and Storing and Retrieving Region Shortcuts and Custom Named Region Attributes.

Example:

<!--Using region shortcut-->
<region
  name="PartitionedRegion"
  refid="PARTITION_REDUNDANT">
...
</region>

<!-- Retrieving and storing attributes -->
<region-attributes
  id="myPartition"
  refid="PARTITION_REDUNDANT">
  <partition-attributes
    local-max-memory="512"/>
</region-attributes>

<!-- Attributes are retrieved and applied in the first region -->
<region name="PartitionedRegion1" refid="myPartition"/>

See <region-attributes> for a complete listing of region attributes.

<index>

Describes an index to be created on a region. The index node, if any, should all come immediately after the “region-attributes” node. The “name” attribute is a required field which identifies the name of the index. See Working with Indexes for more information on indexes.

Default:

API: org.apache.geode.cache.query.QueryService.createIndex, createKeyIndex, createHashIndex

<index> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
name	Required. Name of the index.
from-clause	Specifies the collection(s) of objects that the index ranges over. The from-clause must only contain one and only one region path.
expression	Specifies the lookup value of the index.
imports	String containing the imports used to create the index. String should be specified in the query language syntax with each import statement separated by a semicolon. The imports statement provides packages and classes used in variable typing in the indexed and FROM expressions.
key-index	True or false. Whether the index should be a key index. If true, the region key specified in the indexed expression is used to evaluate queries
type	Possible values are “hash” or “range”.	range

Example:

<region name=exampleRegion>
  <region-attributes ... >
  </region-attributes>
  <index
    name="myIndex"
    from-clause="/exampleRegion"
    expression="status"/>
  <index
    name="myKeyIndex"
    from-clause="/exampleRegion"
    expression="id" key-index="true"/>
  <index
    name="myHashIndex"
    from-clause="/exampleRegion p"
    expression="p.mktValue" type="hash"/>
  ...
</region>

<lucene:index>

Describes a Lucene index to be created on a region. The lucene namespace and the scoping operator (:) must be specified, as the Tanzu GemFire cache namespace also defines an index element (for OQL indexes).

API: org.apache.geode.cache.lucene package

Example:

<cache
  xmlns="http://geode.apache.org/schema/cache"
  xmlns:lucene="http://geode.apache.org/schema/lucene"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://geode.apache.org/schema/cache
    http://geode.apache.org/schema/cache/cache-1.0.xsd
    http://geode.apache.org/schema/lucene
    http://geode.apache.org/schema/lucene/lucene-1.0.xsd"
  version="1.0">

  <region name="regionA" refid="PARTITION">
    <lucene:index name="myIndex">
      <lucene:field name="x" />
      <lucene:field name="y" />
    </lucene:index>
  </region>
</cache>

<lucene:field>

Describes a field to be included in a Lucene index. Including the lucene namespace and the scoping operator (:) clarifies, but is not required.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.lucene package

<lucene:field> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
name	Required. A string that defines the name of the field. If a single field is defined by the value `"__REGION_VALUE_FIELD"`, then the entire value is used as a single field.
analyzer	A string that provides the path to the analyzer to use for this field. A value of `"null"` uses the default analyzer.	`"null"`

Example:

<region name="dataregion" refid="PARTITION_REDUNDANT">
  <lucene:index name="full_value_index">
    <lucene:field name="__REGION_VALUE_FIELD"/>
  </lucene:index>
</region>

<entry>

An “entry” element describes an entry to be added to a region. Note that if an entry with the given key already exists in the region, it will be replaced.

Default:

API: org.apache.geode.cache.Region.create, put, get, putAll, getAll

Example:

<region ...>
  <region-attributes ...>
  ...
  </region-attributes>
  <entry>
    <key><string>MyKey</string></key>
    <value><string>MyValue</string></value>
  </entry>
</region>

<key>

Required. Describes the key in a region entry. A key can contain either a <string> or a <declarable> sub-element.

<string>

Specifies a String to be placed in a Region entry.

Example:

<region ...>
  <region-attributes ...>
  ...
 </region-attributes>
  <entry>
    <key><string>MyKey</string></key>
    <value><string>MyValue</string></value>
  </entry>
</region>

<declarable>

Specifies a Declarable object to be placed in a Region entry.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: Declarable

Example:

<parameter name="cacheserver">
  <declarable>
    <class-name>org.apache.geode.addon.cache.CacheServerInitializer</class-name>
    <parameter name="system.property.prefix">
      <string>cacheserver</string>
    </parameter>
  </declarable>
</parameter>

<value>

Required. Describes the value of a region entry. A <value> can contain either a <string> or a <declarable> sub-element.

<string>

Specifies a String to be placed in a Region entry.

Example:

<region ...>
  <region-attributes ...>
  ...
  </region-attributes>
  <entry>
    <key><string>MyKey</string></key>
    <value><string>MyValue</string></value>
  </entry>
</region>

<declarable>

Specifies a Declarable object to be placed in a Region entry.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: Declarable

Example:

<parameter name="cacheserver">
  <declarable>
    <class-name>org.apache.geode.addon.cache.CacheServerInitializer</class-name>
    <parameter name="system.property.prefix">
      <string>cacheserver</string>
    </parameter>
  </declarable>
</parameter>

<region>

When nested within a <region> element, defines a subregion. See Create and Access Data Subregions for restrictions on creating subregions. For example, you cannot create a partitioned subregion.

See <region>

<function-service>

Configures the behavior of the function execution service.

Example:

<cache>
  ...
  </region>
  <function-service>
    <function>
      <class-name>com.myCompany.tradeService.cache.func.TradeCalc</class-name>
    </function>
</function-service>

<function>

Defines a function for registration in the function service

Specify the Java class for the function and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Default:

API: org.apache.geode.cache.execute.FunctionService

Example:

<function>
  <class-name>
    com.myCompany.tradeService.cache.func.TradeCalc
  </class-name>
</function>

<resource-manager>

A memory monitor that tracks cache size as a percentage of total heap or off-heap memory and controls size by restricting access to the cache and prompting eviction of old entries from the cache. For tenured heap, used in conjunction with settings for JVM memory and Java garbage collection. For off-heap memory, used with the off-heap memory manager.

API: org.apache.geode.cache.control.ResourceManager

<resource-manager> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
critical-heap-percentage	Percentage of heap at or above which the cache is considered in danger of becoming inoperable due to garbage collection pauses or out of memory exceptions. Only one change to this attribute or critical heap percentage will be allowed at any given time and its effect will be fully realized before the next change is allowed. This feature requires additional VM flags to perform properly. See `setCriticalHeapPercentage()` for details.	0
eviction-heap-percentage	Set the percentage of heap at or above which the eviction should begin on regions configured for HeapLRU eviction. Changing this value may cause eviction to begin immediately. The default is 0, if no region is configured with heap eviction If `critical-heap-percentage` is set to a non-zero value, 5% less than that value. 80%, if `critical-heap-percentage` is not configured.	0
critical-off-heap-percentage	Percentage of off-heap memory at or above which the cache is considered in danger of becoming inoperable due to garbage collection pauses or out of memory exceptions.	0
eviction-off-heap-percentage	Set the percentage of off-heap memory at or above which the eviction should begin on Regions configured for HeapLRU eviction. The default is 0, if no region is configured with heap eviction If `critical-off-heap-percentage` is set to a non-zero value, 5% less than that value. 80%, if `critical-off-heap-percentage` is not configured.	0

Example:

<cache>
...
  <resource-manager
    critical-heap-percentage="99.9"
    eviction-heap-percentage="85"/>
...
</cache>

<serialization-registration>

Set of serializer or instantiator tags to register customer DataSerializer extensions or DataSerializable implementations respectively.

Example:

<serialization-registration>
    <instantiator id="30">        
       <class-name>com.package.MyClass</class-name>
    </instantiator>
</serialization-registration>

<serializer>

Allows you to configure the DataSerializer for this Tanzu GemFire member. It registers a custom class which extends DataSerializer to support custom serialization of non-modifiable object types inside Tanzu GemFire.

Specify the Java class for the DataSerializer and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> sub-element.

API: You can also register a DataSerializer by using the org.apache.geode.DataSerializer.register API. Use the org.apache.geode.Instantiator API to register a DataSerializable implementation.

<instantiator>

An Instantiator registers a custom class which implements the DataSerializable interface to support custom object serialization inside Tanzu GemFire.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> sub-element.

API: DataSerializable

You can also directly specify <instantiator> as a sub-element of <cache>. Use the org.apache.geode.Instantiator API to register a DataSerializable implementation as the serialization framework for the cache. The following table lists the attribute that can be specified for an <instantiator>.

<instantiator> Attributes

Attribute	Description	Default
id	Required. ID that the Instantiator should associate with the `DataSerializable` type.

<backup>

Defines additional files or directories that should be backed up when the system wide backup command is invoked. Disk stores with persistent data are automatically backed up and do not need to be listed with this element.

Example:

<backup>./systemConfig/gf.jar</backup>
<backup>/users/jpearson/gfSystemInfo/myCustomerConfig.doc</backup>

<initializer>

Used to specify a callback class (and optionally its parameters) that will be run after the cache is initialized. This element can be specified for both server and client caches.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements. See <class-name> and <parameter>.

Default:

API: Declarable

Example:

<initializer>
  <class-name>MyInitializer</class-name>
  <parameter name="members">
    <string>2</string>
  </parameter>
</initializer>

<declarable>

Specifies a Declarable object to be placed in a Region entry.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: Declarable

Example:

<parameter name="cacheserver">
  <declarable>
    <class-name>org.apache.geode.addon.cache.CacheServerInitializer</class-name>
    <parameter name="system.property.prefix">
      <string>cacheserver</string>
    </parameter>
  </declarable>
</parameter>

<class-name> and <parameter>

Specify the name of a Java class with the <class-name> sub-element.

Specify initialization parameters for the class using the <parameter> sub-element. Use the name attribute to specify the name of the parameter and specify its value in the content of the <string> sub-element or by specifying a Java class with the <declarable> sub-element.

Example:

The following transaction writer configuration example specifies a Java class named com.company.data.MyTransactionWritet. The class is initialized with a parameter named URL whose value is jdbc:cloudscape:rmi:MyData.

<transaction-writer>
  <class-name>com.company.data.MyTransactionWriter</class-name>
  <parameter name="URL">
    <string>jdbc:cloudscape:rmi:MyData</string>
  </parameter>
</transaction-writer>

<declarable>

Specifies a Declarable object to be placed in a Region entry.

Specify the Java class and its initialization parameters with the <class-name> and <parameter> sub-elements.

API: Declarable

Example:

<parameter name="cacheserver">
  <declarable>
    <class-name>org.apache.geode.addon.cache.CacheServerInitializer</class-name>
    <parameter name="system.property.prefix">
      <string>cacheserver</string>
    </parameter>
  </declarable>
</parameter>

<string>

Specifies a String to be placed in a Region entry.

Example:

<region ...>
  <region-attributes ...>
  ...
  </region-attributes>
  <entry>
    <key><string>MyKey</string></key>
    <value><string>MyValue</string></value>
  </entry>
</region>